I hereby call the meeting of Hell Township Council to order. Opening statement, please. This meeting is being held in accordance with public law 1975, chapter 231, open public meetings act. Adequate notice has been provided in the manner prescribed by law. This agenda is
complete to the extent known and formal action will be taken. I'll begin with a roll call. Counciloman Fischer here. Councilman Nadell here. Councilman O'Donnell here. Deputy Mayor Ger here. Mayor Legio here. Thank you. Please rise
for pledge of allegiance. Moment of prayer. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all. Move on to reports of township officials. Mr. Clark. All right. I have an update. So this week, Mayor Leio, Brian Greenfield, our DPW director, Matt Howard, and I met
with an amazing young lady and her mom, Riley Rzzden. Riley is in 8th grade at Middle School South. She's working on her Girl Scout Silver Award project. Uh the crux of the project is that she wants to spread awareness about
childhood cancer within the community. It's an issue that's very personal to her because um she is a childhood cancer survivor and she's currently one year cancer free. So um we met with her. She's a tough tough person. Uh real
warrior. She's got a lion heart. So uh we made her the project manager for this and we're going to work with her to help spread childhood cancer awareness in the following ways. Uh, Sunday, July 13th from 11 to 3 PM at the Southern Fire
Department, there's going to be a community event. Local childhood cancer foundations will be present. They're going to share information about what they do for kids battling cancer and for the families of those kids. Um she's gathering a wish list from the
foundations which when we get we'll make public um to accept donations from the community and local business to assist the kids and their families. Uh she's designed a challenge coin with the help of Copper Gear to sell as a fundraiser
uh which shows the support of our local heroes, fire, police, EMS. The funds from this fundraiser will go to purchase items on the foundation's wish lists as well. In addition, there's going to be a blood mobile present to take donations and there will be the national marrow
donor program there. Uh they'll provide people with a swab so you will know if you're a marrow donor and you'll be on their list to help kids. Um finally, September is childhood cancer awareness month. So we're working with Riley to
place gold bows around Howell as a show of support for our local kids that are fighting. have fought, will fight, or have sadly lost the fight to childhood cancer. Uh we're going to have a lot of reminders going out before the events.
And as September approaches, we're going to have uh our leader Riley in here for a council meeting to give us more information about what everybody can do to participate in Gold September. So that is that is my update for this
evening. Mr. Howard, just a couple quick ones. Um there's a couple resolutions on for that are related to some funding for Echo Lake, uh the playground. We've we're working out the details of the grant. Um we've secured the grant. Um it's in our capable hands of Justin Yos,
the township engineer, who's going to start designing. Um we're going to meet with the family that previously had a a piece of that playground dedicated and we're going to start to put um some plans together so that we can bring that uh inclusive playground at Echo Lake uh into being. Also, there's a couple
resolutions or one resolution on it's no secret this council has been looking at ways to revitalize our commercial corridors. Um, we re uh last year and the previous year we did an area needed of redevelopment study on Route 9, a section of Route 9 south. Um, and we're
continuing those studies for the rest of the Route 9 route 33 corridor. We're authorizing our planner um to go forward with those studies, find what properties uh qualify for an area need of redevelopment. And then we're going to see if we can find some ways some creative zoning to uh revitalize, you
know, and bring forward those corridors uh into much more usable destinations that'll that'll serve the area and the residents of Howell. That's all I have. Council. Okay. Moving on to
uh hearing of citizens public comments. Excuse me. We have a council update from Mr. Bryce from JCPNL. I'm sorry. See that? This whole thing is like Thank you, Mayor and Council. I
appreciate your time this evening. Uh, I'd like to talk to you about one issue uh that's coming up uh regarding the bills that customers are going to be seeing uh in June, but then also address some other issues uh in Howell. Uh first, I'd like to give you an update. Uh there's been a lot of work done,
reliability work done in Howell over the last 6 months to a year. Uh last year, uh Jersey Central Power and Light identified certain reliability uh circuits that needed repairs. One of the top ones in the state was the uh circuit out of the Howell substation up off
Howell Road. Uh we've done about a million million and a half dollars worth of work on that circuit. Uh a lot of people have seen the traffic work through the fall and early winter. Uh that's now complete and up and running. Uh in addition to that substation, uh we identified that there's been a lot of
incidents of animal intrusion within there. Uh we spent several hundred,000 on all sorts of animal guards for that substation. So, we're starting to see a lot of uh improvements uh in that area as well. Um the other topic that we've been
working on is uh some street lights. Uh Mr. Clark, uh we got a list uh I think that list was completed back probably March. We had them receiving the full list of about 400 lights. Uh I think 394 is the exact amount. Uh as of the other day, we've made about 320
repairs on those lights. Um there's all sorts of uh different types of repairs that could be made. The most common repair being a bulb or photo cell. Um that's most of the repairs we've made. Uh the other ones are complete head replacements that
when a uh a head is just the mechanism within it is no longer serviceable and it won't accept a bulb. We just replace a whole head. And the third type of repair involves underground lights where it's fed underground. That's typically some sort of fault or break in the wire.
Uh that's a more uh intricate type of repair. We have go ahead and have a uh third-party uh vendor come in and assist us with those repairs. Um but right now the remaining 60 are probably all head replacements. Our contractor uh was
doing going so fast he ran out of material. So we have other heads on uh order right now. We should have those in shortly uh to complete those repairs. Then the other issue I'd like to go ahead and talk to you about right now uh is with uh the bills that the residents will start to see. Uh the first thing we
want residents to do is just kind of the bill. Um we want them to understand how to how to decipher the bill and what it means. The first thing people have to understand is there's two mechanisms to that bill. Back in 1999 after
deregulation, Jersey Central Power and Light is no longer a generation company. We are simply a distribution company. We distribute the power, we deliver it to the homes. The generation uh customers even either have the option to go get a third party supplier or if
they don't, the default comes from what's called the BGS, the basic generation service. That's an annual wholesale auction held by the New Jersey uh Board of Public Utilities. The entity that supplies that power to them is an
entity called PJM. Stands originally for Pennsylvania, Jersey, Ma, Maryland. It's a 100-year-old company and now has a lot more states than Pennsylvania, Jersey, and Maryland. It has 13 states and the District of Columbia. It represents about 65 million people uh in the
central United States. It's the largest grid operator within the United States. Um this year the wholesale auction went from roughly a price of $25 a kilowatt hour to $250 a kilowatt hour. Um so that
what's resulting in that is the state the be the board of public utilities can't reject the bid. They simply have to go ahead and uh approve it uh if it's consistent with market trends. And that unfortunately is consistent with market
trends throughout the country. Uh Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia all had similar results in their elections. But on the bill, uh customers can look and see the first charge they see is the JCPNL charge. That's the delivery charge. That's what we charge to get it there. The other
charge is the supplier charge. So either it's the third party if residents have a third party or it's the default BGS charge. Um Thank you. So, what's been happening with rates the last couple of years? So, the only
increase that JCPNL had in our rates uh prior to the last four years was last year in June 1st, 2024. We had had an increase in four years. We went before the Board of Public Utilities for a rate case hearing and we got 3.6% increase
that kicked in last June 1st. In addition to that was the first rate hike uh through the basic generation charge. That was also June 1st and that was an 8.7. So it meshed with our charge to combine uh a charge of over 11% for
people. This year uh that that's going to be a much larger basic generation cost that's being uh put onto the bills. It's going to be 19.9%. Again, um this is a pass through. JCPNL doesn't collect any of this money. It's simply passed right through to uh
PJM to go to the generation uh companies. Um there's again a lot of factors at play, but if the bills are going up, we want residents to also understand. We want you to watch your consumption and make sure there's nothing else at play affecting what your
consumption is. And you're able to uh compare it on that lower left section of the bill. Um it tells you how much you use each month and then it gives you the comparison and average uses down below. Now, we've recently uh converted all to
smart meters. Um, and one of the benefits of a smart meter again here is the fact that for this comparison sake that smart meter, you don't have to have somebody come out and read. It's basically the same uh period that it's
read all the time, 30 or 31 days. And it to compare it, you're able to compare it. when people were reading meters, they couldn't get out because of weather uh or something along those effects. So, you could have a 27-day period one month
for your meter and a 34-day uh read period the next. So, you weren't really able to compare monthtomonth. This is much better for that sake uh to be able to compare. Um and that's what you'll see in the middle there. It says A, E, and C.
Actual read, estimated read, and customer read. You're basically going to see actual reads nowadays because the smart meters coldest win start of the winter uh in years in more than six years. Uh total res residential consumption was up
8.4% uh between 23 and 24. uh the split here between non-electric heat customers and electric heat customers. We like to break that down because heat customers have a much larger uh uh percentage increase uh from
5 to 11%. Uh at the same time, customers are using more energy. The electricity price has risen again that 8.6% from the supply rate that I spoke about and the 3.6 from our increase. And the impacts of increased rates um overall uh for non
electric heat customers was 21.1% and a heat customer 28.5%. Um so again just to touch on smart meters again with the arrival of smart meters a lot of the installs taking place last year a lot of people believed
that there was a correlation between the smart meter installation and the rise of their uh increase in their bills. that wasn't it was due to the factors I just explained to you the basic generation cost are 3.6% increase and then just the the weather playing a hand in that as
well. Um again smart meters since they've been put into effect we've seen a lot of benefits. Some of them I just explained to you uh but other ones uh during a storm we are able to use them to uh for our restoration efforts. Uh it
used to be let's just say we have 2,000 people out we make restoration. There was a lot of hanging orders out there. We called them single no lights. We used to have to send trucks out to verify that each one of those customers was up. Most of them were up, but some of them were down, but we had to verify. Now,
we're able to ping using the meter and within a matter of 10, 15 minutes clear all those existing orders out. So, that's a real big benefit not having to roll the trucks during a storm. Um, again, some tips just to manage bills. I don't want to go through each and every one, but just let you
know that these do exist, these resources for the residents. Uh, in addition, I could send you a video uh that kind of explains a lot of the things I'm explaining tonight. You can put that on your website for residents if they end up having questions uh come uh June 1st.
Um, energysavingj.com. This uh puts residents in contact with appliance rebate recycling, whole energy analyzer, HVAC rebates, uh whole home energy solutions, weatherization, and the online marketplace.
Um then the next one first energycorp.comsaving energy uh helps you reduce air leaks uh utilize or recommends doing all these things reducing air leaks using uh ceiling fans controlling the radiant heat in a a house uh converting all LED light bulbs
uh and then some other things as well. There's a hundred ways uh for you to improve your electric bill on that. um and assistance. Uh again on that website, the address I just gave, it directs residents who may need uh
financial assistance paying their bills. Uh that is all income driven. That chart is on the right there to uh show what the income levels are. And it has all those uh resources available, some of them private sector, some of them state uh financed. And again down the bottom
there, jcpnl.comass assistance. So one thing with thirdparty administrators, we can't recommend that you use them. We can't recommend you don't use them. We can't recommend who to use either. Um it's conflict of
interest for us to do that. What I could tell you and what I could stress to residents, please do your homework. Particularly now that there's an increase in a need for that, we're starting to see a lot of people come out of the woodwork who may or may not be legitimate. We want people to do their homework. All these resources are there
on our website. We could direct you to that. The BPU has resources as well to direct people to uh go ahead uh and and really look into the uh what they're getting. Um a lot of times it's a bait and switch. They bring in on an introductory offer. They bring out long
terms. Uh, you know, just like buying uh any other um, you know, thing that that anybody could scam you on, you want to be careful. Um, the best advice I give to people is use
a firm that you know somebody else that's using. If somebody else has that firm and they're satisfied using it and they've been using it a while, that's probably a firm that you may want to go with. So, um, again, I don't I appreciate the time you gave me, but I'll take any questions
that you have. I have a question. Um, are are you saying that everyone in How all residences and commercial businesses received smart meters? Were we notified? Yes. What if I don't want one? So, residential customers were
given uh notice. They were uh mailed a notice and then left a door hanger as well. I I did not get a door hanger that I was getting a smart meter. Okay. Um do you have a meter with a blue stripe on it now? I'm gonna go check. Yeah, because it's my understanding most of them have I did not hear good things
about smart meters. Um I I'm not happy about this. I was not notified that I was getting a smart meter. So if you got one, you would have gotten those two notices as well as once it was uh installed, you would have got a door hanger that it was installed as well. And you said this was done in the
last six months. Uh six months to a year we've been in in the area. I'm I'm going to You have my contact information. So we had no choice. This was No, you do have a choice. There is a choice that if you want to opt out, but the option is that you would have to pay $15 to have it read in person.
I I also have to say I find it offensive and I'm not saying it's your fault. I know you're just a messenger, but the governor, the lovely governor, we have uh offensive um trying to tell us to keep our thermostats at 78 in a hot summer in Jersey. You know, all these
references, all these resources on how we can save. It's a it's it's ridiculous. It's offensive. Well, I can tell you I'm a customer, too. And these are things that I've been doing for years. No. And I'm not blaming you, Mr. Bryce. You're the messenger. But as the messenger, I don't
I don't I don't preach what I don't practice. So I just practicing these. I mean, we've had to because of inflation, because of, you know, the economy. Um, we've already been doing that using ceiling fans, you know, trying to keep, but I just 20% increase is it's a lot.
And and again, I just want to let you know too that this is not just JCPNL centric. This is affecting all the utilities uh PS&G, Atlantic Electric, and Rockland Electric in the state. uh and we continue to be 20% cheaper than uh the next closest competition uh for
the for uh the other firms out there. The only the only thing that I can say and I would agree with um Mrs. Fisher. It's and it's not just electric as you you're well aware. This is just utilities across the board only add to
the burden of residents and their uh taxes and Trenton's demands and whatnot. Uh that make it unfortunately very difficult for a lot of people and not just a senior community but anyone on
fixed incomes. You know, you retire or whatever the reason. So you have a pension, you have social security, and we all know that doesn't keep up with things. But um you know, I even we did solar as well. So there I have a solar payment. I have an electric payment.
Solar maintains a certain amount every month. My electric intent just keeps going up and up and up. And um and I understand, you know, about trying to be effective in thermostats and you know 70 78 in the summertime at a buy level. I
could commit murder. I mean, you know, then it's 85 upstairs because that's where the main living part of the home is. Um, and I understand everything you just said and why the rates are up and you know the different levels of uh entities
that are involved, but um I wish JCPNL and the other entities could do something about just correcting, you know, the the Rocky Harbor shook going on. You know, I couple this with my propane
um gas cost and whatnot. And I hate to say that we're going to be priced out for utilities that I consider creature comforts. So, I don't consider this a luxury in my house to have electric and heat and cooling, but um I mean really
something and I know nothing is going to happen soon. I'm I'm well aware, but I just have to say this while I have an opportunity to say it while it's being televised. If something isn't done soon, there's not even anywhere to go. You can't leave Jersey and escape this
because you're going to have electric wherever you go. But considering everything in its totality, I mean, even people in companies have to understand, and I'm sure they do, CEOs and whatnot, I'm sure that they're still receiving
compensation that's commensurate with what's happening, but I know um my pension isn't. So, um, I can only think that companies in a sense really don't care, but I I just have to say it otherwise I won't be able
to sleep tonight. Um, I just think things are so poorly run that the expense continues to climb because infrastructure wasn't done, you know, probably in a momentum that it should have been done. I mean, I'm well aware of the substation you refer to and how
many times I go by because I live closer. So, I'm on that road probably six times a week and the trucks that are in there fixing and fixing and fixing and the joke now when I go by with uh my girlfriend is, well, they're they're going to try again to fix it. I mean, if
it's either too old to fix, it has to be, you know, redone. And that's another um you know, another example of why we pay more. you know, something happens in uh California, you know, and then that
cost is shared by the entire country like everything else with insuranceances. Um, somebody's got to come up with a better answer than um, you know, they're allowed. And I get it. You may be, you know, you get the charge and you're passing it along.
Unfortunately, while everybody's passing it along, they're passing it through my my dining room table where we're writing the check. So, no matter how many passalongs happen for utility companies, it's still the same pocket that it comes from. And I'm sorry that you were the
person that had to come tonight and explain this because I'm sure that this is exactly what you hear every time. But we'll put this on our website, but when people call the manager's office, I hope he can revert them right back to someone in your office so that they can enjoy
the same information that we're hearing frequently. Well, again, thank you for your time. Yeah, it's not the town's issue. It is our issue. So, we do want them to put it back to us. Um, and just a couple things with what you said. Um, it is a national issue like you said.
It's this isn't unique to JCPNL, the First Energy footprint, the PJM footprint. This is is a national issue with with all the different grids out there. Agree. Um, I could tell you that again, everyone in our company, you know, lives in the footprint or a footprint of one of the other utilities.
So everybody is encountering this as well. So it's not something that the company is is is you know not tuned into. Uh I I was with leadership the other day and they understand it and our company does operate very lean. Like I said we're operating 20% less than some
of the other comparable utilities. So they are trying to keep that in mind uh for residents as well. Thank you. First, I want to thank you for coming tonight and letting us beat up. Right. So, listen, you're getting what
we get. I mean, we we are the uh punching bag for everything that goes on in the town. Uh and it was enlightening to hear about the uh uh animal intrusion thing that you're working on. Uh so, I'm going to go a little different
direction. I I mean, I taught advanced electronics for 20 years, so I understand the whole system in and out. uh I learned something that you are not a a generator of electricity anymore. You're just the supplier of electricity.
So with that being said, that means that you probably have a very good snapshot of the demand for electricity and where it's going and are we going to be able to keep up with it. So my question to
you would be as someone who is going to supply the electricity and you see you need more power, do you have the options to go to
other suppliers to keep up with the demand? Uh it's something we talk about in class all the time and you know it and uh you know we have the whole issue with the fossil fuels and the burning. We still know most electricity is created that way, but you know, we hear
it all the time and I've heard it uh a lot. You know, we just had the wind thing that went south and that wind thing was supposed to be very helpful to JCPNL because they were running out of power. So, I would like to, you know, I mean, I'm just asking, you know,
personally, I'm I'm a nuclear fan. I'd love to see another nuclear plant in this and especially the small ones that we have now. So, do you have those options? Like if things start to get dicey, can you pick up the phone and call some other supplier generating and
have them sign on to your grid? So, let me answer a few of your questions. Um, first of all, for JCPNL and First Energy, we prefer a diversified portfolio as far as what we're getting supplied with, whether that be wind, solar, uh, nuclear, uh, you know, uh,
gas fired, um, hydroelectric. Um, hydroelectric, if we could put more dams all over the place, I think that would probably be the best solution, but that's not my call. But uh the what you're talking about though is a little bit above where I would be involved. Uh
but I could tell you though our company is in constant communication and we have representatives with uh the PJM and there's constant communications secret uh that the uh demand is outpacing the supply. That's a
national issue. again. Um the reason being it's fueled on one side by the increase in electric demand fed by a little bit by electric vehicles, a lot by uh data centers and other things of the sort. Um they devour energy. Um and
then on the other side for the supply issue, you have a lot of uh coal and gas fired plants going offline and out living their useful life at this point. Um, so that's kind of where this balance is not in balance right now, I believe.
Yeah. I mean, Evelyn was talking to with the price. Listen, it's a supply and demand. When the demand goes up and the supply is starts to get thinner, price goes up and that's kind of I think what we're seeing. So, uh, you could go back
to whomever you say and say, you know, we need to do something because listen, I understand as what I taught this, our whole, uh, grid is outdated, period. You know, we need to start to get it going. So our leadership is awareness and I can tell you too in Trenton I know a lot of
the the legislation right now. There is a lot of legislation out there um varying legislation on you know um but a lot of it is on the the table right now out there to address this very issue. Yeah. Thanks again for coming to listen.
Appreciate Yeah. That's a good Yeah. Getty you Well, listen. I gota say I'm gonna have to say a few things. You know what I mean? Yes, sir. And don't and none of this is directed towards you, Mr. Rice. Okay. Okay. Sometimes I get a little I
get a little excited. Okay. The root cause of this whole thing in the country is deregulation anyway. You know, I mean, as far as the plants shutting down and, you know, the coal plants getting outdated or a nuclear plant. And I just think it was lack of of, you know,
leadership at the top, not JCPL, you know, these other plants and these the big boys that control the numbers at the end of the day. And who's it come back on? This comes back on the regular people that have to pay the bills. So last year you guys are 10 11%. This year
now, you know, we're 20%. In in what fairy tale land does does something go up 30% in two years? Nobody's nobody's pay raise goes up. Nobody's, you know, nothing. Cola, I don't care what what job you have except for the CEOs. You know, they get their 30 40 50%, I'm
sure. So, whatever. You know, it has nothing to do with you, Mr. Bryce. But, um, I just find it highly offensive, you know, that this 20% is even on the table. And then we have the clowns in Trenton that want to base your income on
what you should pay for utilities. I think that's that's just hysterical. You know, when the when those clowns are the ones that are millionaires, and then it doesn't matter what they have to pay for their electric bill, you know, then they want subsidies for for everyone. Well, you know what? Then the people that clearly can't afford it, then don't use
it as much. You know what I mean? I have to cut back. She has to cut back. We all have to cut back. But then the people that don't want to cut back are the ones applying for, you know, for subsidies, too. It's ridiculous. The whole thing is is upside down. But since this is just little Howell Township here and we four
of us vented a little bit, you know, I appreciate you coming here and I want to thank you for getting on top of our light the light bulbs, Mr. Clark. That was huge. DPW have identified all the polls. And one other thing, Joe, I know we talked about this moving forward.
Some streets that have poles that we could possibly put put new lanterns on. So we we we have talked about that. So, we'll continue that conversation. But, yeah, I will say this. Uh, we got the list to them and the repairs have been
very, very quick. So, so that the other end the other end of some streets, you know, because we have some changing areas and some intersections are really not lit up well. And if there is polls, we would like to, you know, if we could, Joe, you know. Yeah, absolutely. We'll talk to them. And but new fixtures, you
know, and the uh, no pun intended, but the new lights are a bright spot in town. So, thank you to Mr. Price. Mr. Bryce, did you say earlier you are uh everything you're doing new is being converted over to LEDs? So new if the town requests it. Um we'll
we'll do LEDs. We're trying to encourage it because we're hoping that in a few years that's the only option out there. Um but we are encouraging and again we'll you know there's been I'll tell you right now with other towns there's people that love them and people that
don't like them. Oh yeah. I understand. Yeah. is great. It is different. So again, you're you have a good engineer here, so I think he'll be able to to uh understand some of the complexities involved with it, but um when you look at it from a safety perspective, when
you go into a neighborhood, I don't think anybody would ever commit a crime in a lot of these neighborhoods. And you certainly are going to see someone walking, riding a bike, but um you also it shines a lot of the houses up like they're in a football stadium. So that's the downside. Yeah. But listen, thanks
for everything. You're welcome to come back anytime too to talk to us. Anytime you want to hear us, thank you for All right, moving forward. Uh, open the floor to the s public hearing comments. Each person shall first give their name
and address to the clerk. The council shall be addressed as a collective body and not as individual members. Each person shall have one turn to address the council and comment shall not exceed a total of five minutes. Speakers shall be notified when their time has run and no time extension shall be permitted.
Yes. Hello council. Good evening. Your name and address. My name is Eugene Gratzky. I reside at 37 Wilson Drive in Ramtown. and I'm asking for your assistance this
evening in particular regarding a safety concern that I have and possible code violations that I'm requesting be addressed. The particular issue is that um a residence on our street at 41
Wilson Drive appears to be operating a business out of the home, which is an obvious appearance of a business. In particular, this property has a re um collection of commercial vehicles that
range in a number from on any given day could be two up to as more than nine vehicles. The number of vehicles come and go. They vary and they present the appearance of a fleet of business
vehicles. Now, our residential street is being utilized as a parking lot for these vehicles. I have plenty of pictures depicting the appearance that these vehicles pres present, but I have two particular um points I'd like to
point out. I am aware of parking ordinance 7-3.7 which specifically states that no um parking no person shall park several
vehicles including a bus, school bus, and a recreational vehicle otherwise known as an RV in any residential area. So the commercial vehicles in question are large oversized vans. They're work
vans. And when they park backto back, nose tonose, they present the same obstruction and visual appearance as a bus or an RV. And they block the visibility from a resident backing out
my backing, excuse me, backing out of my driveway looking up the street. I can't see what's coming down the street due to this obstruction. And the main um point of evidence that I have for this is
regarding the ordinance um surrounding home offices. Now we are zone R3 which is strictly residential. There are approved usage usages one of which is a home
office. Um there are a number of situ um points about this that I want to point out. Um according to
188-64 in A1, it states that uses are limited in extent, degree, and time and do not detract from the residential character and quality of the neighborhood. A3 states
that we um there is a need to protect residential areas from any adverse impacts associated with home occupations to protect residential property values. It is also to ensure the health, safety,
and welfare of neighbors and other rep residents, making sure they're protected and their rights are not compromised in any manner whatsoever by the operation of the particular home occupation. And in B, there are other requirements such
as um well, it states a home office use is an office activity. So, the residence at 41 Wilson Drive has evidences that are clearly outside of the home, or else I would not be
noticing them. For example, there are non-residents appearing at that address viewing vehicles that appear to be for sale. These people come, it has happened on more than one occasion. They arrive, they view vehicles, and they leave.
There are auto parts being stored on the lawn that are used giving the appearance of an automotive repair business. Um, and the main thing, um, is, well, one point of evidence I
want to correspond is the person who's operating this business at 41 Wilson Drive also owned and operated the same business, a tra a vehicle transport business at 31 Princeton Drive in
Howell. Now, I requested code violations for that property. I don't have them yet, but that business was listed by the Department of Transportation with that same business phone number that is in use at 41 Wilson Drive. I respect Thank
you. Your time has ended. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Anyone else? Mike Bernstein, three Colleen Court, Howell. Um, I just wanted to piggyback on the gentleman that spoke for Jersey Central Power and Light. Um, there are
programs out there for the businesses in Howell that will help them immensely and save them a bunch of money that you might want to put on your website. It's what I do. But I don't I'm not trying to sell my company, so I'm not even going to tell you the name of it. They can go to whoever they want to go to to do
this. But what it does is I'll use this building as an example. Anyone, any commercial business, they can go to what's called a trade ally. And they do this through New Jersey Natural Gas. They do it through Jersey Central Power and Light. They do it through PSCG. They
do it through all of them. Um, so like the rooftop units, the lighting. Okay, the water heaters, everything. You can get very, very high efficiency stuff, like the ultimate stuff, but you don't pay as much as you would, and it lowers
your bills immensely. Because to give you an example, I use the one uh Howard Johnson's downs river for $600 somehat thousand dollars to replace all of the heating and cooling, the lighting, their water heaters. We did all of it. They as
the owners, they only had to pay 20% of the cost. They only had to pay $180,000 and they were given five years 0% on their gas bills to pay that 180,000. So, this is a program designed
to save businesses money that you just may want to put out on a website, let them know that that's something there because obviously, yeah, the residential bills are going to go up, but the commercial bills are going to go they're going to go even worse. And what they just did is they raised the amount of kilowatts that you're allowed to use and still be in the program. It used to be
200 kilowatts. Now it's 300. So more can go into it and they can save a lot more money. So it's all out there. He can he back me up on it. I mean, it's a good program and it can save our businesses a lot of money. So you may want to put that out there. It's called Small
Business Direct Install and it's available through New Jersey Natural Gas and it's available through Jersey Central Power and Light. There are different versions. They go from up to uh 80% discounted off the cost down to
60%. There's also prescriptive plans which will help you to do, you know, to be able to be as efficient as possible because if we can get these businesses to use less power, there's more to go around. We all pay less like Mr. Gazer said supply and demand. If we lower the demand, then we lower the price. So, you
may want to put that out there. Mr. Clark, if you want paperwork on it or stuff from it, I'll be more than happy to send it over to you. Yeah, send send it over. We're actually using direct install on this building and throughout town. So, it's a great program. It is. It's for anybody that's not forprofit or a commercial business, some churches,
too, things like that. Thanks, everybody. Anyone else? Yes, sir. Hello, council. My name is Jason Tillery. I also reside at 37 Wilson
Drive in Ramtown. Um, to piggy back off what Miss Grace was talking about, we're talking about Sprinter vans. We're talking about a loophole. Um, from what I see, the gentleman, the large sprinter vans are
oversized vehicles. They're not your regular work van. One work van, understandable. A lot of guys are plumbers and what have you, and we can understand that. But this, we're talking about a fleet. We're talking about three on this side of the street, three on this side of the
street, two in the driveway, coming and going, parts changing. And thus, um, like I said, we're talking about a loophole because he doesn't present any contractor plates because there's no writing on the vehicles. Um, no ladder
racks on top. So, technically, they're not uh uh uh um contracted vehicles. Um uh and like I said, excuse me for being a little nervous. This is not my thing, you know, but uh but like I said, we're also talking about the integrity of the
neighborhood. We're talking about a place where kids ride their bikes, run up and down the street with their skateboards, people walk their dogs. The same safe neighborhood I've been living in for 13 years. Um, but now it's turned
into a parking lot. Now I've I've repeatedly caught this guy on camera, recorded some things, him doing dealings with certain people to come by and look at VIN numbers and buy the vehicles. says he's not running a business. Uh
we've got we've contacted the code enforcement officer. He can't find anything legally that the guy is doing illegal that the guy is doing wrong. But again, there's a loophole. So, we've been asked to come and try to change the ordinance like an ordinance happened was
changed a couple of few years back when um landscaper trailers weren't allowed to park on the street. Okay. At one time there were that ordinance was changed. The same with RVs. RVs again ordinance was changed. So what we're asking is
even though this guy may be following the law, he's found a loophole. And like I said, it it it's messing with the integrity the neighborhood. I've spoken with other other citizens and other homeowners and stuff. Nobody likes to
look. It's unsafe. Uh Scott, he moved in, just opened up a business with not with no regard of how anybody feels about their property, how anybody feels about the look of their neighborhood or the safety of their neighborhood.
So Gina and I have done our own research. Um, a lot of stuff can be found. Google's great. You can find anything on Google. We found a guy's business where he used to live. I even looked on Google Maps and found his old home and guess what? There's Sprinter
vans in front. So, it's obvious um even though it may not hold any legal precedence, but I'm asking you all to look into the ordinance and help us change it to keep our neighborhood safe and our streets
looking beautiful. I yield. Thank you. Anyone else from the public? I'm seeing none. So, may I have a motion to close? Public comments. Motion to close. Second. All in favor?
Response to public comments, Mr. Bower. I'll address the Wilson Drive um issues. I I'll piggyback right off Mr. Tillery and he's correct on most of it. There may be a loophole in the ordinance. what is happening is not necessarily illegal
by any ordinance. Um I'm going to try and refrain from going into any specifics because there are current investigations going on. Um but we have ordinances that are protective of health and safety and that's really what our ordinances that's the goal of them. So if we're going to pass new ordinances,
we have to make sure they're protective of health and safety. Something like our property maintenance code, we use the international property maintenance code. So that is not something that Howell Township cooked up 20 years ago and haven't looked at. It's the international property maintenance code.
So to change and add to that would be a very high burden to prove that there's a health and safety issue that requires such update. Um there are other ordinances that have been mentioned um that have been discussed and certain
types of vehicles that can or can't be banned from roadways. Um that's not my decision. and I'll leave that to the lawyers and to the council. Um, I've seen certain types of vehicles like Sprinter vans be used commercially and not commercially. So, I'm not necessarily sure that you can take one
and connect it directly with the other. Um, going with some of the comments, there's a lot of appearances of here. And keep in mind, code enforcement gets involved and we write a notice of violation, we have to be ready to back that up with a summon. If we're writing
violations and we're not ready to back it up, then what are we doing? It's not going to work. So, we have to be ready to back that up with the summons. That means we have to be prepared to go into municipal court, sit in front of the municipal judge, also convince the municipal prosecutor that what we have
is a violation and we have to point to the black and white lettering of the ordinance and say, "Here's what's in violation is here's what we found and here's why it's in violation." If we can't do that, then we can't bring it to court. we're going to lose our entire reputation with our prosecutor, with the municipal court, and the township as a
whole. It's not an option. Um, we have a lot of appearances. I agree. We have a lack of evidence in a lot of what's being discussed. We're going to continue to monitor the the the area, the situation,
and if we gather enough evidence, then we're going to take the necessary steps. Nothing's being ignored. We've already expended several hours worth of code enforcement's time here. It's not being overlooked. It's not being ignored. Um the appearance of commercial fleets,
the appearance of a business, it's not enough. We have to be able to get something more concrete than that. We just don't have that. Um the connection of the any type of vehicle to a different type like an RV and saying, "Well, they're pretty much the same."
It's it's not if it's not listed in the ordinance, it's not the same. and it's not a violation. So, when we list buses and RVs, it covers buses and RVs, not anything different. Um, home office ordinance, it is an ordinance we have that permits somebody to have a home office in a residential zone um with a
permit through the town. And there's a lot of conditions to make sure that the area um that the the structure of the property stays residential. There's no signage. There's no signs of a business being run. It's really just it's really a tight ordinance that allows you and your computer to sit in, you know, the
extra bedroom and do some work. That's almost that's pretty much the limit of it. No employees, um, no sound, no extra deliveries, nothing like that. Um, not necessarily the case here. Not to say it's not a case that can be made, um, with the right evidence. We're still trying to gather evidence. We're
investigating ongoing. We're not going to stop investigating um, until we hit brick walls, but we're talking to the police department. We're talking to um, various other groups that may be able to help us. Um, and one other key point I
do want to bring out in terms of an unsafe condition, just because it's being discussed quite a bit. The police department has been out. They have inspected. There is no unsafe condition. Um, vehicles are allowed to be parked in the roadway. I get it. Certain number, certain type. It definitely draws more attention. It definitely detracts in
certain ways, but again, without the evidence, um, these are not unsafeely parked. Otherwise, police department does have jurisdiction. um and there are no violations in how or where they are parking. Otherwise, the police department would take action. So, we're
working on this code enforcement approach, this land use approach with zoning hasn't panned out and we're going to continue to work on it as best we can. Joe, no, I concur. I mean, we'll take a look if we can change the ordinance and we're
going to keep investigating and you know, I understand this is a common problem throughout town. Um, and we will deal with it as best we can in this case. And with regard to Mr. Bernstein's comments, again, excellent comments. Um, and we will get information out there
for our local businesses about direct install and we'll work with the chamber to get information out that way as well. John, anyone up here? Yeah, I want to say something. Thank you for coming today.
Uh, we got pictures today. I haven't had a chance to look at all the pictures. So when somebody like this comes before us, you know, it's sort of like three years ago when uh people were coming before us about the rentals in town. And
then we had a look and say, well, with the ordinances we have, we can't do this, we can't do that, but we're going to start taking a look at things. And what we started to do was we started to chip away and you know, we
understand what goes on in the town. So, we started to take ordinances and we started to tweak them to eliminate problems that we were seeing that people thought where we could just go bang on
the door and see what was going on. So, I can assure you that we're going to look at this guaranteed. You know, I don't want to have anybody come and I don't want to hear hear this. Uh, I know what it would be like if it was one of
our neighborhoods. You know, same thing. We'd feel the same way as you do. But, you know, Matt is right. You know, we need a prepoundonderance of evidence. And, you know, we get to the point where summones might be issued. You might have
to come to court. You know, we we go through this in town with of dirt bikes and four-wheelers that the police can never catch, but the residents have videos of it, you know, and technically, you know, they're not going to give a summon unless they witnessed it. Same
thing with our code violation people. Listen, they're out there. I can't even tell you how many summones that they're out there writing. So, I can guarantee all of us, you know, we're we're going to discuss this and we're going to find out exactly what there is that we can do about this. It's guaranteed and they're
our experts and they're very inventive. I can tell you that they are they do a great job. But thanks again for coming. I appreciate it. Uh so, it's been a little while. Had a meeting when we touched on the rentals. I know Fred just happened to bring it up.
So, we're aware of the issue. It's seems like it's still going on, making some progress, but just wanted to see what else we could do. So, I asked Matt to just pull some numbers for me earlier. We able to get them, Matt? Yep. So, what did we have last year for uh violation notices? So, overall violations through
the end of April. Um we had 722 total about um it looked like about 85 of them were directly for housing and rental related issues. There was other housing like failure to register with our certification, things like that, but actually housing issues were 85 through
through last year. Uh, and that was what till April of end of April last year. So, end of April this year, we're at 69 housing violations. 416 total. Um, both are decreasing slightly. Um, it's really
probably a bit of a just, you know, natural fluctuation. Um, there's also one key factor. we've been hitting the um annual rental inspections. So, with that, those ordinances we passed, we are going into every single rental unit. Um we're spending quite a bit of time and
effort getting into every rental unit doing inspections. Um our uh success rate in getting in is pretty high. There's going to be some stragglers, but I thought we might be 20 30% lagging. We're not. We're within 5% of getting into each unit. But that is taken just
for example housing inspections through the first four months last year 337 this year almost 1,200. So it's almost 300% higher. So that just shows the effort that's going in. A lot of these are compliant rentals which is which is great. Um so it's not resulting in
violations but that's where a lot of the effort's going this year. Um how are we doing on revocations any of those? So revocations we we still have about somewhere between eight and a dozen that are pending in different stages. Um we're in court on several of those uh
waiting for some results. All right. Well, again, we're still, you know, hearing about issues just dayto day. So, I know it's tough. We are working on it, but again, if there's something that we could do on our end, some more ordinances, tweak some more stuff. And and then I'll just piggy back on to
regarding the parking. So I think maybe we're hearing same issues with some of the rentals with parking where traditional family with two parents and children are living in a house now it's multiple adults not necessarily enough room on the private property to park. So that's something
that I definitely want to take a look at as far as looking at our parking ordinances, making sure that it fits the character of our town. And that would include potentially, you know, maybe Sprinter vans depending on the length, size where it could be similar. And again, it's a
very similar type of quality of life issue that doesn't fit into suburban way of life. So, we could definitely get together and talk about parking at rental properties and see if there's some regulations, you know, that that would pass muster. We're we're very
creative with the ordinances when it comes to these things. The rentals are, you know, and they're our guides, so we we throw things at them and they'll say, "Oh, no, you can't do that." But then they'll say, "Well, we might be able to do that, you know, you know, but the
short of going and banging on somebody's door, which you can't do." But a lot of people don't understand that. But we get it. Okay. You know, we we live here just like you do. Mrs. Groski, I I actually came out the other day and sat in front of that house for about 20
minutes. I seen some of the things that you have brought up and I actually came right back to town hall and spoke to Mr. Clark and Mr. power about it and I can assure you that they're already on top of this entire thing, but legally, like
he explained, we have to do it a certain way. Um, I'm disgusted by it just sitting over there and seeing what I saw as far as people back, you know, being able to back out of their driveways. And I, you know, I don't want to say I disagree with the cops that there's no
no violation, but there is a sighteline issue and like say a kid crosses the street at 43 Wilson in between you and 27, right? There's you ain't seen that kid with those with those uh sprinter
vans sitting there. So, you know, I have full confidence in our code enforcement and, you know, and our land use guys to to do their due diligence here and um to piggyback off of what Mr. Gazer and and Ian said, you know, as far
as if we have to address it with an ordinance, then we are going to address it with with an ordinance. Um the, you know, legally because we don't want to wind up in court and then we lose and then it's a it's a wash. But there's definitely without a doubt, you know, what's the old saying, you know, if it
looks like a snake, it is, you know, whatever. It's there's there's activity there. Pennsylvania plates. Okay. I went back today. I think there was eight vehicles there today and six of them had Pennsylvania plates and two of them had New Jersey plates and I seen three
individuals working on the other side of the fence on some on on one of them. So, whatever. It's just, you know, there, you know, we we hear you and we're and we're gonna be addressing it. Okay, just just to calm you down a little bit. All right, please. There's a fire hydrant
right there at the corner of Vivian and Wilson and all the pictures. There's a fire hydrant. Gina, public comments closed. You could speak to the professionals after the meeting if you like. All right. So, we'll pass that. If that if that's the case and they're blocking the fire, then obviously the police department or fire could go over
there. That's that's that simple. But, uh yeah, and then to and then just to address what you know, Mr. Mr. Gazer and Mr. Nadell said about the rentals. We have come a long way, you know, since, you know, three years ago.
Um, but I do believe that there's a still a handful of landlords that are just bad actors. You know, they come in, they get their rental certificate, they get their inspection, and the lease says four people or six people, and then boom, they get their first month, last
month, and security, they're gone. and then this place turns from six people on the lease to 15 to 18 to 22 whatever we but we have addressed a lot of those issues throughout throughout the areas that it's going on and um I don't mean to cut you off we have a lot more than
just a handful this is nowhere we're not putting the banner up mission accomplished we have a ton of work to do and it's an ongoing battle at all these ordinances are definitely helping there are definitely I think there has been a change in the last 6 months in the positive um we have a ton of work to
Yeah, I agree. You know, like I said, there's just some bad actors there that they frustrating. You know, they come in, they they they apply for the rental certificates under an LLC in Chicago, California, wherever it's at, and then they don't care. They want their their their rent money up front, they get it,
and then if there's violations, oh well, I got my first my first three months up front, and I'll deal with it if I have to. Then they blame the tenants. The tenant blames the landlord. I didn't know I I couldn't do that, which was ridiculous. and then the landlord blames the Listen, it's a it's a dirty game. It's all about money and then it
devalues certain neighborhoods and certain blocks which isn't fair to the residents. Okay? And it's going on in surrounding towns. It's sickening to tell you the truth. And uh you know that's why we're tough here the way we we have written some of these ordinances and and addressed these ordinances and
uh we are still moving forward with it and getting even tougher. So, you know, that's like we put these guys on notice. You want to come to Howell and do it, you're going to be put on notice with it because it's just ridiculous. It's just, you know, and your neighbors know better. You know, if if if this is going on, he's running a business out of here
under the shadow of not running a business, you know, it's ridiculous. Quality of life on your street shouldn't shouldn't be affected. You've been here for, you know, I don't know how many years and, you know, total. But if it was on my block, I'd have big problem any of these guys, you know.
So, you know, we we hear you loud and clear. And I uh you're not part of an HOA there, though, are you? See, that would be helpful. And one more. And just like Matt said, you know, we do have a lot of work to do with them. So, again, we need new ordinances, new things to
enforce on these properties to make sure they're done. We're putting the landlords on notice. Like, you're not going to come in here and deteriorate our quality of life. So, we're working hard and just got to keep on going. One good thing I could report on is we are getting to be a reputation for very difficult to deal with on the housing. And that's exactly what it should be
because we're tough. We're fair, but we're tough. Yeah. Well, we got to be a little tougher next. But unfortunately, Matt, we live in a in a in a sanctuary state, I guess they want to call it. And we're and you know, the state blocks the townships from doing a lot of stuff, too, in the name of, you know, fairness
to everybody. So, you know, how about the first responders? you know, with a house that has 25 people in it that only should have six or seven. Responders come at three o'clock in the morning and now they're tripping over beds and mattresses and and false walls. But don't worry about the responders. Their lives don't matter. It just, you know,
what matters is loading that house up so that, you know, these guys could have a place to live and overwhelming our infrastructure, whether it's electric, natural gas, water, sewer, our school district, and then you still can't do nothing about that. Okay? It's a complete joke. All right? We have the our foot on the gas here and some people
don't like that and that's you know that's tough for them. You really got us all fired up because we're sick of hearing it. You know it says he former police officers. So listen, I can't tell you how many days I miss having that
summon. All right, we're we're good. Good. Mr. Before we go forward, if I might go ahead. Um, Mr. Clark, can you as part of your uh report speak about Monday um Memorial
Day, our program, where it's at, what time, and then of course our the farm angel parade that will be immediately following. Yeah, sure. Of course, it'll be um it'll be Monday at Soldier Memorial. Um, let me uh we'll list the time for sure, but I think it's
traditionally around 10:00 a.m. uh followed by 11. It's 11 for 11. So, okay. So, 11:00 and then it's followed by the uh the Memorial Day parade in Farmingdale which um is always a very well attended event. So, so we encourage
everybody and how that can can go. Please do. uh obviously for the reasons the intent of the holiday but uh important to keep our children um civic minded in in what this is really all
about. So hopefully people come out with their families and it's a good teaching experience. Uh our veterans take a great deal of pride in helping with the program and Soldier Memorial Port Park is a most beautiful place to hold the
event. So, please come out. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. All right. On to consent agenda items. Next, we'll vote on consent agenda items. Does anyone wish to vote on any consent agenda or you know, separately
or poll? We So, may I have a motion to pull? We have a motion to pull. Oh, not me. 164 R25 164. I'll second that. Councilwoman Fischer, yes. Councilman Nadell, yes. Councilwoman O'Donnell,
yes. Deputy Mayor Ger, yes. Mayor Leio, yes. Thank you. So, moving forward, now we will vote on resolutions uh R-25-155 through R-25-166D,
excluding R2 164. Yes. I'll make a motion to approve the above said uh resolutions. Second. Councilwoman Fischer, yes. Councilman Nadell, yes. Counciloman O'Donnell, yes. Deputy Mayor Ger, yes.
Mayor Bleio, yes. Thank you. The consent resolutions pass. All right. And then may I have a motion to approve consent agenda consisting of resolution 25-15 through 25? Oh, no. Wait, we just
did that. We we're good. We're on We're on to uh ordinance 167 167 R251 167 providing for the insertion of a special item of revenue in the 2025 budget. 2025 national opioid settlement funds.
R25168 providing for the insertion of a special item of revenue in the 2025 budget click or ticket grant. and R25169 providing for the insertion of the special item of revenue in the 2025 budget 2025 recycling tonnage grant. I'd
like to make a motion to accept resolutions R25-167 through R25-169. Second. Councilman Fischer, yes. Councilman Nadell, yes. Counciloman O'Donnell, yes. Deputy Mayor Ger, yes. Mayor Leio, yes. Thank you. The
resolutions pass. Right. On to unfinished business. uh public hearing adoption of ordinances. We will continue with unfinished business public hearing slash adoption of these ordinance. Uh, so we have O2-14,
an ordinance of the township of Howell supplementing chapter 188, article 10 zone supplementing and modifying sections 188-79.1 special economic development zone- sed-1 to include active and passive recreation uses, including
outdoor and indoor facilities as a permitted use. The public hearing on ordinance 25-14 is now open. If anyone wishes to comment on this ordinance, please come to the podium and state your name and address for the record. I'm seeing none. May I have a motion to
close? Motion to close. Second. All in favor? I. Motion to adopt 25-14. I'll make a motion to I'm sorry. Did you have a question or no? A motion to adopt ordinance uh 254.
Second. Councilman Fischer. Yes. Councilman Nadell. Yes. Counciloman O'Donnell. Yes. Deputy Mayor Gazer. Yes. Mayor Leio. Yes. Thank you. The ordinance is adopted. On to the next one. Ordinance 25-21, an ordinance amending chapter 7-14 of the
revised general ordinances of the township of Howell to wave public parking lot permit fees for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients. The public hearing on ordinance 25-21 is now open if anyone wishes to comment on this ordinance. Please come to the podium and state your name and address
for the record. I'm seeing none. Motion to close. Motion to close. Motion to adopt 25. I need a second. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you. I'll make a motion to adopt ordinance
25-21. Second. Before we vote, I just had a question if you guys would know. Um, for the disabled veterans, is it um have to be 100% disabled or any percentage?
Um, I would have to check with Lou on that, but this is our parking lot permit fees. So, I don't think that we set a limit on the amount of disability. So, as long as Yeah. Okay. Yeah. There just has to be a demonstraable disability. I know when people get discharged on disability from the military, they give it in scales. So, make sure it's
including as many of them. I think it does. The country. Okay. Perfect. Okay. I have a first and a second. Counciloman Fischer. Yes. Councilman Nadell. Yes. Councilman O'Donnell. Yes. Yes. Deputy Mayor Ger. Yes. Mayor Leia. Yes. Thank you. The ordinance is adopted.
On to the next or introduction of ordinances 0-25-22 capital ordinance providing for recreation improvements to Echo Lake and appropriating 800,000. Therefore, authorized in and by the township of Powell in the county of Mammoth.
May I have a motion to introduce ordinance 2522? Motion introduced to ordinance 2522. Second. Councilman Fischer. Yes. Councilman Nadell, yes. Councilman O'Donnell, yes. Deputy Mayor Ger, yes. Mayor Legio, yes. Thank you. The ordinance is properly introduced.
Next. O-25-23 capital ordinance providing for various recreation improvements to township parks and playgrounds and appropriating 550,000. Therefore, authorized in by the township of Howell and the county of Mammoth, New Jersey.
Motion. Motion to introduce ordinance uh zero-25-23. Second. Councilman Fischer, yes. Councilman Nadell, yes. Councilwoman O'Donnell, yes. Deputy Mayor Ger, yes. Mayor Leio, yes. Thank you. The
ordinance is properly introduced. Next. So, I just quickly I just wanted to Councilman Nadal's question. I double checked the language in here and then I double checked the New Jersey statute to which it refers and there doesn't appear to be a limitation on the amount of
disability. So it's extraordinarily broad. Thank you. Ordinance 025-24, an ordinance amending chapter 139-64 of the revised general ordinances of the township of Howell to bring municipal public defender application
fees in line with state statute limits. May I have a motion to introduce ordinance 25-24? Second. Councilman Fischer, yes. Councilman Nadell, yes. Councilwoman O'Donnell, yes. Deputy Mayor Ger, yes. Mayor Leio, yes. Thank you. The
ordinance is properly introduced. Ordinance 0-25-25, an ordinance amending chapter 188, land use, article one, title, purpose, definitions. Section four, definitions and rules of general applicability of the revised general
ordinances of the township of how have a motion to introduce ordinance 2525. May I'll make a motion to introduce ordinance 25-25. I'll second. Councilman Fischer, yes. Councilman Nadell, yes. Councilman O'Donnell, yes. Deputy Mayor Gazer, yes.
Mayor Leio, yes. Thank you. The ordinance is properly introduced. Ordinance 25-26, an ordinance of the township of Howell, amending chapter 188, article 10 zones with modification to sections
188-69, agricultural rule, state zones a1, a3, a4, and a6 188-70 residential 22 and residential 3 r3. 188-71 residential 50
R50 188-75 neighbor 188-77 Highway development 1 HD-1 188-78.83 83 highway development 4
HD4 and 18879.1 special economic development zone-1 sed-1 to include emergency services as permitted use that that saved us doing like five different audiences. So thank you Diane.
I have a motion to introduce ordinance 25-26. I'll make a motion to introduce second. Councilman Fischer. Yes. Councilman Nadell. Counciloman Noon. Yes. Deputy Mayor Ger. Yes. Mayor Legio. Thank you. The ordinance is properly introduced. Ordinance
25-27, an ordinance amending chapter 241, retail food handling establishments. Section 7, expiration of license deadline for license renewal. And chapter 139, fees, article 15, health licenses and permits. Section 28,
fees of the revised journal ordinances of the township of Howell. Motion to introduce ordinance 25-27. I'll move to introduce ordinance 25-27. Second. Councilman Fischer. Yes. Councilman Nadell. Yes. Counciloman O'Donnell. Yes. Deputy Mayor Ger. Yes.
Mayor Leio. Yes. Thank you. The ordinance is properly introduced. The next regular schedule council meeting will take place on June 3rd, 2025. Executive session begins at 6 pm and the regular session will begin at 7 p.m.
So I am seeing no further business before the council. May I please have a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? I. Yes. [Applause]